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J. H. SAGER BUMPER Filed Feb. 14, 1927 INVENTOR 2/51/10: 5 er BY 7 m6 ATTORNEY pasta J n; 14,1927. i i 7 1,632,563

UNITED STATES PATENT osF cE;

JAMES H. SAGER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 'ASSIGNOR TO J. H. SAGER COMPANY,

OF ROCHESTER, NEWYORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK. i

' BUMPER.

Application filed February 14, 1927. Serial No. r7967.

The present invention relates to bumpers struction but whichconsists, in this instance, for motor vehicles and an object of .the:in-' of a single bar with two rearwardly' deflectvention is to provide a novel construction ed'portions and a forwardly deflected porby which a single bolt or fastener may be tionb secured to the impact 'bar at '5. The 35 employed for holding a cap on the endof bolt 3'passes through an opening in one end a tubular impact member and for anchoring of the spring and isheld against the inner one end of a supporting spring for the imface of the cap 2 by a nut 6. pactm-ember. It will thus be seen that the tubular im- 40 To these and other ends, the invention pact 1, one of the caps 2, and one end of the 10 consists of certain parts and combinations of bumper supporting spring 5 are held byra parts, all: of which will be hereinafter clesingle bolt or fastener. This bolt or fastener scribed; then'ovel features being pointed out isisurrounded within the tubular impact a in the appended claims. member by a sleeve which prevents the dist In the drawings: tortion of the impact member through the 15 Fig. 1 is a plan view'of the bumper conturning of the nut 6 too tightly. structed in accordance with this invention; What I claim asmy invention and desire and p 1 g to secure by Letters Patent is:

V Fig, 2 is a fragmentary sectional View 1. The combination with a tubular impact through one end ofthe impact member, the member of a cap fitting over the same, a 20 cap and the supporting spring. p bumper supporting spring and a single bolt Referring more particularly to the drawsecuring the tubular impact member, the r ings, 1 indicates the impact member which, cap and the bumper supporting spring. i in this instance, is in the form of an open 2. The combination with a tubular impact end-ed tube having its ends covered by caps member of a cap fitting over the same, a 25 2 fitting on the exterior of the tube 1. Pass bumper supporting spring, a "bolt passing ing through the tube and each cap is a bolt throughthe tubular impact member, thecap v or faistener'g which, within the tubel is surand the bumper supporting spring and a roundedby a sleeve 4, the ends of which abut sleeve surrounding said bolt within the im-,

the inner wall of the tube 1 about theopenpact member to prevent the compression of I Y O ings in such tube, This bolt 3 also serves for the impact member.

securing one end of a bumper supporting 1 spring 5 which may be of any suitable con 7 JAMES H. SAGER. 

